Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 26 January 1924
Marconigrams
The local fat stock markets re-opened this week.
There were 26,904 unemployed persons in Sheffield last week.
The Wath Gas Board have subscribed £20 to the Gas Section of the British Empire Exhibition.
Lenin, the master-mind of the Russian Revolution, often killed by rumour, died this week.
In consequence of the railway strike local collieries and works are carrying on with great difficulty.
A Swinton child has died at the Conisborough Isolation Hospital this week from spotted fever.
Mr. Frank Hodges, the miners’ secretary, has been appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty in the Labour Ministry.
“The trade and industry of this country are balanced on a knife-edge.”—Sir Eric Geddes.
Mrs. James Baker, 10, New Street, Goldthorpe, recently gave birth to triplets, three sons, and the King’s Bounty has been received.
An interesting old arch recently excavated at Hooton-Levitt is to be used in a war memorial to the “old boys” of the Council School there.
“To read the daily diatribe of Labour leaders denouncing each other would cause angels to weep tears of shame.”—Mr. George Lansbury.
It is expected that Mr. Baldwin will have found something very neat and succulent in the Resignation Honours List for the man who advised him to have a jolly old election.
Items From “Punch”
The Decimal Association makes the proposal that we should have a tenpenny shilling. This would be an improvement on the present sevenpenny ones.
A club for women whose husbands stay out late at night is suggested by a weekly paper. What is the matter with the old weapon—the poker or the tongs?
Mr. Maxwell-Mason declares that “it is everybody’s ambition to appear in print nowadays.” Except our domestics, who still seem to favour repapering.
The election of chairmen of urban and rural district councils in the administrative county of the West Riding of Yorkshire have been fixed to be held on Saturdays, April 5th.
The annual report of the National Savings Committee for the year ended March 31st last states that the number of Savings Certificates sold was 49,583,317, of a cash value of £39,653,964.
Speaking of Roy Kilner at the annual meeting of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club this week, Lord Hawke said he did not see how he could be kept out of any representative Test team.
A Special Musical Evening will be given at the Roman Terrace Primitive Methodist Chapel by the Mexborough Primitive Methodist Choir, on Sunday, January 27th, at 6 p.m. Welcome to all.
The output of the coal mines of Great Britain for the week ended January 12 was 4,476,200 tons as against 4,307,200 tons in the corresponding week last year.
Dr. Alexander Hill’s illustrated lecture on “Brain Tissue,” which was to have been delivered next Monday evening in the Mexborough Secondary School, has been postponed to March 10th in consequence of the railway strike.
The Ministry of Labour state that the number of persons on the live registers of the Employment Exchanges in Great Britain on January 14 was 1,920,400. This was 7,306 fewer than on January 7, 1924, and 285,478 fewer than recorded on January 1, 1923